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AMCON to Disengage Non-performing AMPs over N740bn Debt

Mr. Ahmed Kuru, Managing Director/CEO, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has hinted that AMCON may disengage Asset Management Partners (AMPs) that cannot cope with the speed and enormous challenges of debt recovery expected by the corporation.

He also promised that the corporation may assign more accounts to AMPs that have shown aggression and zeal based on the review of the AMP scheme so far. He made this declaration at the 2019 edition of the AMCON/AMPs Interactive/Feedback Session in Abuja.

AMPs, are consortiums appointed by AMCON after a rigorous selection process with specialist skills required to ensure recovery and debt resolution; banking, legal, valuation and accounting. Kuru said that collaborating with AMPs became necessary because AMCON has a total loan portfolio of over 12,000 loans of various sizes and sectors that are still lingering many years after the corporation was established. He stated that when this is compared to AMCON’s staff strength, it became obvious that the corporation surely needed a strategic approach to improve coverage, recovery and results.

Kuru also disclosed that the AMPs are currently handling over 6,000 accounts within AMCON portfolio. Although in terms of weight, the accounts, which have been outsourced to AMPs constitute only 20% or N740 billion of the total EBA portfolio of N3.7trillion. AMCON he insisted places equal importance on the recovery efforts as they count towards the achievement of the corporation’s core mandate.

Managing Director/CEO, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Mr. Ahmed Lawan Kuru (left) with the Principal Partner, Lexavir Partners, Mr. Francis Chuka Agbu at the AMCON/AMP Interactive Session in Abuja.

To achieve the mandate as part of the corporation’s renewed strategy to resolve these loans, he said, AMCON in 2016 introduced the AMP scheme to assist the corporation’s recovery activities especially in tracing, identification and location of obligors with the intent to resolve their outstanding indebtedness; tracing, identification and location of assets of obligors (both pledged and unpledged) to enhance the EBA value, and achieve set recovery objectives.

The AMPs he further said were also empowered to enable them get involved in negotiation of settlement & restructuring terms with identified obligors in line with approved guidelines; pursuing & enforcing debt recovery and collection activities geared towards optimization of assigned portfolio to achieve set targets and initiation of legal actions to further the loan recovery mandates in line with approved guidelines, amongst other obligor engagements.

With this laid down guideline and with AMCON sunset in sight, Kuru said AMCON is more aggressive with its recovery strategy and also expects its partners to equally step up their game because the corporation will no longer accommodate any AMP that is not moving on the same speed.

“We know it is not easy the jobs we have assigned to you. Recovery is a difficult job but even at that, a few of you (AMPs) have shown they cannot cope; we may have no choice to disengage such partner. But those that have done well, we will upgrade and even assign more responsibilities to such partners because there is indeed need for speed in this assignment. We are convinced that the AMP programme is key to the success of AMCON, and we will give you all the necessary support to make you succeed in this exercise,” the AMCON boss added.

Principal Partner, Lexavir Partners, Mr. Francis Chuka Agbu, SAN and AMCON’s Group Head, Enforcements, Mr. Aliyu Kalgo who also spoke at the forum called on the AMPs to leverage the special powers as provided by the AMCON Act 2010 as amended to improve on their assignment.

Other speakers at the forum include Mr. Benedict Daminabo, who spoke on AMCON Enforcement Procedures; Mr. Kunle Olalekan who dealt with the issues of Share Tracing and Transfer. Other presenters include, Mr. Aaron Agada (Asset Tracing & Recovery); Abdulazeez Baba (AMP Manual of Operations) and Mr. Jude Orhotowho and Steven Olateru (Use of AMCON Portal).

There were also Mr. Patrick Daniels (Commission & Claims); Mr. Adetayo Osunnaiye (Enterprise Risk Management) as well as Mr. Paul Odiwe (Post Enforcement Management).

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